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Saw Matt Pinto’s Dallas Mavs-L.A. Clippers preview and noticed this listed among Pinto’s “Five Things to Know About the Dallas Mavericks”: “Rapper Joe Budden mentioned Josh Howard’s error in Game 5 of the 2006 NBA Finals in the remix of Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy.'” News to me, but, yup, he’s right; song’s several months old, matter of fact.
Here are the lyrics in their entirety — including the JoHo reference, “I’m like Josh Howard, I need timeout, but it’d cost the game”– and here’s the remix, featuring Budden, Kardinal Offishall and Remy Martin, which sounds like a religious law firm of some kind. (You can only listen to the cut using the Hype Machine’s player, but you’ll find it also makes the best radio station on the Interweb as well.) And, for fun, let’s just go back and look at that JoHo play again, shall we… –Robert Wilonsky
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